Unlikely Tricks

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA K 9 7
  2. heart—
  3. diamondJ 10 7 6 2
  4. clubK Q 6 4
  1. spadeQ J 6 4
  2. heart6 5
  3. diamondA K 9 8
  4. club9 7 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N 6 1 - 2 -
S 6 1 - 2 -
E - - 4 - -
W - - 4 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade5 3
  2. heartA K Q J 10 4 3
  3. diamondQ 5 3
  4. club2

Contract: 4heart
Declarer: East

  1. spade10 8 2
  2. heart9 8 7 2
  3. diamond4
  4. clubA J 10 8 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1diamond 1heart Pass
1NT Dble* Pass 2club
Pass Pass 3NT Dble
Pass Pass 4heart Pass
Pass Pass

* take-out of heart

Perhaps the sensible move over 3NT would have been to Pass, but it requires that you lead a black suit to beat the contract**. Had you decided to double 3NT then you may have been tempted to double 4heart too. That would have given you -790, as was recorded at the table. Of course the best score available to North-South is to bid and make 5club, so maybe South should have given himself a chance by bidding 3club over 1NT instead of 2club. How should the play go?

** See comment in article on 31/03/2003
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